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Mom Gives Botox To 8-Year-Old Daughter

NEW YORK -- This story was first reported by ABC News and is taken from ABCNews.com

An 8-year-old California girl is receiving Botox injections and leg waxing from her mother, all in the name of beauty pageant success, all done by her own mom, ABC News reported.

"We were getting into the pageants," Kerry, the mother who asked that her last name not be used, told ABC News. "I knew she was complaining about her face, having wrinkles, and things like that. When I brought it up to Britney (her daughter) she was all for it."

Kerry, a San Francisco, Calif.-based, part-time aesthetician began injecting her daughter with the anti-wrinkle solution.

"She had watched me do it before," said Kerry. "So when we first did it she was fine with it." Kerry typically administers the Botox to Britney through a total of five shots, in three different locations on her face.

"It hurts sometimes," said Britney. "It makes me nervous. But I get used to it."

While Britney thinks about the physical pain, ABC reported that critics in the medical community contend that administering Botox this early raises another type of more lasting pain: the potential for permanent psychological damage.

"Well, when I first heard this story, I think my initial reaction is to be a little bit in disbelief, and a little bit horrified," Dr. Charles Sophy, a psychiatrist, told ABC. "There's a lot of psychological damage that can be caused."

Kerry, however, argues that her daughter is a normal 8-year-old, not fazed emotionally, or physically, by the cosmetic procedure.

"Do you see anything wrong with my daughter, psychologically?," she asked. "I don't see anything wrong with her. I have a normal child. It's not breaking her spirit. She's happy. She runs around. She's smart."

On Friday, the San Francisco Human Services Agency launched an investigation into Campbell's questionable parenting tactics, and by Monday, this contender for Worst Mother of the Year had lost custody of her pageant-contestant daughter.

In a trio of videos released late Thursday, Sheena Upton, the woman known as "Botox Mom," tells TMZ.com that her story was scripted and the photos taken of her injecting her daughter with Botox were staged in a nail salon's waxing room.

Upton explains, "They told me to hold, like, a plastic -- it was a medicine syringe, no needle, just the medicine syringe and act like I was just holding it up and bend down, so I did that. I asked what the story was pertaining [to], they said it's just a salon day with your daughter and that's it. [....] Later on is when I heard they used it as [a] Botox [story], which, honestly, I don't even know what Botox is."

In other clips on the site, she says "Good Morning America" didn't fact-check the segment at all and that she was paid (albeit much less than she expected) by an outside company.

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